My Japanese 101 class is most certainly the nerdiest class in the university, except possibly higher level Japanese to weed out the people who aren't completely enthusiastic.

We have to speak a lot in the class, repeat after the teacher, etc.

Example:

Mainichi, watashi wa gohan o tabemasu.
(Everyday, I eat rice)

We all repeat after the teacher, but there are always the greasy anime shirt wearing kids who scream out their answer so fast so that they can be ultimate Japanese master to cut everyone off. The class was crammed with kids who are fighting for permission codes so they can take the class for credit. I'm nerdier than the average girl, don't get me wrong, but I'm feeling so beaten.

On our homework sheet, we had to translate our new vocabulary words from hiragana to romanji, and then to English, so we could study them. One of them was in kanji, so I didn't understand, but it turned out to be the characters for Japan. I found out because one of the girls looked rabidly over my shoulder and shouted "YOU KNOW THAT MEANS NIHON WHICH MEANS JAPAN IT'S IN KANJI I LEARNED SOME WHEN I WAS IN CAMP I FIGURED NO ONE ELSE WOULD KNOW, ONLY ME, THAT IT WAS IN KANJI, NIHON, MEANS JAPAN, OR IT COULD ALSO BE PRONOUNCED..."

I'm scared. No one has a top knot like in Hsu's japanese class, but it's pretty close.

Any funny class stories?